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1  Why they came east I don't know.
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2  The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come east.
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3  I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.
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4  Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.
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5  Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe--so I decided to go east and learn the bond business.
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6  It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.
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7  His family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach--but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.
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